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Toronto’s APB recently dropped a rousing music video for their new single “Change the Vibration.” Watch it above. The frenetic track, featuring an odd time signature and high-energy bars about shifting frequencies, comes with equally spirited visuals, jumping back and forth between shots of Black Lives Matter protests and APB performing on stage and in industrial areas. “‘Change […]

6ix9ine‘s impenetrable confidence doesn’t seem to be echoed by those close to him.  Although 6ix9ine boldly trots through the internet, the rapper’s team is actually worried about his safety.  “I’m concerned,” one of 6ix9ine’s lawyers, Dawn Florio, told the New York Post on Saturday. “Lots of people condemn Danny for cooperating with the government. Even a young gang member […]

Refusing to let their derailed tour schedule get them down, Belgium-based hip-hop duo Blackwave — aka rapper Jay Atohoun and singer-producer Willem Ardui — have instead decided to focus their energy on their music. Working in isolation from each other shouldn’t be a problem for them, though. After all, the pair managed to record an […]

“Make sure you’re at the next block party, J! I’m gonna send you the details.” Ambush is excited when he talks about his block, the Camden streets that raised him alongside his God-fearing, Angolan-born mother. As he lets us know on his new mixtape Ask My Brother, Ambush has been through some “silly events”, many of which could’ve ended up […]

Hot on the heels of April’s “Sugar Zaddy”, sharp-tongued Nadia Rose is back with her next release on her nascent Qwerky Entertainment label, “Too Bad”.   Fittingly, for a track about her exes not being able to handle her changing moods and capricious nature, “Too Bad” shows a few different sides to Rose. The quick-witted, tongue-in-cheek […]

Again, another generally terrible month of 2020 has passed with a bunch of awesome music releases doing their best to offset the wackness. It’s a shame that Canadian artists, high-profile and otherwise, are delivering at such a consistent rate but all audiences can do about it is stay home and jam. It seems, though, that […]

We’ve all been in those relationships that are bad for both parties, but feel so good all the same. It can be too much to resist, can’t it? That’s what makes “Bad 4 U”, the smouldering new single from South East London rapper Jay 8lue, so utterly relatable. Blending together hip-hop and R&B (with just a […]

Hackney rapper, producer and musician Franklyn has pulled together a lot of surprising influences for his latest single “A13” and it’s given us a lot to unpack. Describing himself as the ghetto Wilfred Owen and the block’s Dickens, that’s just the beginning of the literary and musical references he pours into the  track. Firstly, the self-produced instrumental […]

Montreal rapper Narcy may have made his latest album, Love & Chaos, over a five-week period during the pandemic, but this spiritual continuation of his 2018 SpaceTime isn’t specifically about the pandemic. “I didn’t want to make a pandemic album,” Narcy said. “It’s about the macro and micro of life. It’s about the now, but […]

Scribz Riley is the songwriter-producer behind some of your favourite songs and you probably didn’t know it. The former grime MC from East London has worked with everyone from H.E.R. and Chris Brown to Cardi B and J Hus on their albums, snatching two Grammy awards along the way, but for the past twelve months Riley […]